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Harassment Game

2018 · 1 season

A grounded workplace drama that turns dull compliance cases into tense moral puzzles, satisfying but rarely thrilling.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Toshiaki Karasawa, Alice Hirose, Yuki Furukawa
Overview
Akitsu Wataru is the manager of the Toyama branch of Maruo Holdings, an established major supermarket chain. He is demoted as a result of some incident and moves to the countryside with his family. However, one day, Akitsu is recalled to headquarters as the head of the compliance unit. The CEO and board members have hidden ulterior motives. Various harassment issues happen within the company. Akitsu solves them with novel ideas and methods.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Toshiaki Karasawa, Alice Hirose, Yuki Furukawa
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • power
  • justice
  • corruption
  • morality
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Written by
Yumiko Inoue
Starring
Toshiaki Karasawa, Alice Hirose, Yuki Furukawa, Ichirō Ogura, Kenta Satoi, Shiro Sano, Masayuki Itô, Yui Ichikawa
Music
Evan Call
Length
1 seasons, 9 episodes, 45 min each
Network
TV Tokyo, BS Japan
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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